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Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows |
Date: |
23 Aug 2004 21:59:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
"Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> writes:
> I have been struggling a bit with the installer. First I want to thank you
> for all suggestions. I have tried to take a look at most of them.
>
> Further down you will find a summary of my personal view of some different
> installers for MS Windows. I decided to use Inno Setup. I had already done
> some work with it, it is free, it has good scripting capabilities (which I
> needed in this case).
>
> Now I would like some suggestions. I hope you do not mind. First about where
> to install Emacs. On ms windows most programs are installed in "c:\program
> files\" as I guess you know. I see some alternatives (which I illustrate
> with where emacs.exe is found):
>
> A) "c:\program files\emacs\bin\emacs.exe
> B) "c:\program files\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe
> C) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs\bin\emacs.exe
> D) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe
>
> Which one would you prefer? What about using "c:\program files"?
Most GNU programs have a concept of a "prefix" that folds out into
bin/lib/var/share subdirectories. So the main idea would be to let
the user specify this "prefix" (for example, when installing into an
existing Cygwin tree) and let the prefix default to
c:\program files\emacs
This would land the executable in choice A) or B).
> I include gnuclient and wonder where to put these exe-files.
Same place. On systems where the current copy of Emacs is not
necessarily in the path, invocation-directory is the first choice for
looking for gnuclient.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Vinicius Jose Latorre, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/26
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/24
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/25
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Paul Pogonyshev, 2004/08/05
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/05